and places two puppies in their place. The queen is imprisoned beneath the castle and two trees with golden leaves and golden blossoms sprout in the garden. The king's stepmother realizes the trees are related to the twins and orders them to be chopped down and made into boards for a new bed. She cannot sleep in her new bed, for the twins converse to each other all night, so she orders the bed to be burned. Two sparks fly out of the pyre and turn into golden lambs. The king's stepmother orders the lambs to be killed. While their fleece is washed in the river, the fleeces float downstream. A fisherman then finds a box with the golden-haired twins and raises them. Years later, when they are grown up, they ask their foster father to dress in beggar's clothes to hide their golden hair. They make a living by playing a goussle and a cymbal and singing songs. One day, they go their father's castle and sing a song to the whole court, then take off their caps to reveal their golden hair. In an article in the Archiv für slavische Philologie, scholars Vatroslav Jagić and reported a Serbian tale published in magazine . In this tale, titled "Двоје златие деце" and translated as Zwei goldene Kinder ("Two Golden Children"), the king finds three women harvesting the fields; they stop to rest and the youngest promises to bear the king two golden children. She marries the king and gives birth to two golden male twins. A wicked servant buries them in the garden. The twins go through a cycle of transformations (from golden spruce trees, to doves, to lambs, to humans again). Croatia In a Croatian variant collected by linguist with the title O grofu i njegovoj zloj materi ("About the count and his evil mother"), a count passes by a window where three girls are talking: the first one wants to marry the count's coachman, the second one the count's cook and the third the count himself. The count brings them to his house the next day and weds them to their respective partners. One day, he has to go to war, and leaves his pregnant wife in his mother's care. While the man is away, his wife gives birth to golden-haired twins, whom the count's mother takes and buries in the garden. On their grave two linden